Authentic Resources for FRENCH

IMAGES

• CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: Free high quality authentic images. http://capl.washjeff.edu/

READING

• One Thing in a French Day: A small slice of a Frenchwoman’s day — in France and in French. A fun way to improve your French! (with language level and podcast transcript on the website) http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/
• The questions are not authentic, but the cartes de visite are: http://madamebrady.glogster.com/cartes-de-visite-4/
  http://madamebrady.glogster.com/les-cartes-de-visite3/
  http://madamebrady.glogster.com/cartes-de-visite-/
  http://madamebrady.glogster.com/cartes-de-visite-1/
• a selection of cartes de souhaits: http://madamebrady.glogster.com/cartes-de-souhaits/
• improve your geographical knowledge through games:http://www.jeux-geographiques.com/ and your knowledge of the European Union through those:http://www.europe.learningtogether.net/
• A selection of lessons and authentic texts put together by FLE teachers in France:http://lettres.ac-aix-marseille.fr/college/docpedfle.html
• A little cliché perhaps, but lots of resources about the Eiffel Tower here:http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/enseignants/supports-pedagogogiques
• The website of a school in Guadeloupe:http://www.ac-guadeloupe.fr/Cati971/snd_degre/97113/fr/index_clg_fr.htm
• L'abécédaire d'Harry Potter http://www.linternaute.com/cinema/film/l-abecedaire-d-harry-potter/?f_id_newsletter=5372&utm_source=benchmail&utm_medium=ML200&utm_campaign=E10202608&f_u=11469496
• Reading resources 4 French teachers Wiki: many authentic reading resources. You may join the wiki to add yours.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

LISTENING

• http://www.ielanguages.com/http://www.momes.net/comptines/comptines-chansons.html
• Radio France International:Langue facile:les infos
• http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en Authentic recordings on a variety of topics in various languages.
• http://phonetique.free.fr/ Aimed at foreign language learners, this website reads out the different phonemes of the French language.
• http://wheatoncollege.edu/academic/academicdept/French/ViveVoix/Home.html Poems read out.
• http://www.lafrancebis.com/ Some really good listening comprehensions there, as well as reading and video comprehensions. Most suitable for 14-18 year olds.
• This lists online French radio stations (as well as an RSS feed of news stories):http://www.francetogo.com/
  
  
  SPEAKING
• http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php A text-to-speech tool which lets you type up to 5 lines of French and then reads it out. You can save the file as mp3.
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  WRITING
• This site lets your pupils compose their own fairy tale stories:http://expositions.bnf.fr/contes/pedago/atelier/index.htm
  
  

VIDEO

• tv5.org
• Click herefor Sylvia Duckworth's video blog page with tons of authentic videos in French.
• Journal de TF1 13 hr is an excellent site from which to glean news and cultural clips by subject . The site is well indexed.
• Culture Pub: France. Thousands of TV commercials/advertisements from France.
• Mon JT Quotidien. Nice news service (on the Daily Motion site) aimed at French children.
• MusiquePlus. Music video site.
• http://www.ina.fr/ A lot of news video with a daily pick.
• Christmas around the world in videos:http://www.santatelevision.com/world/index.html
• An absolutely fabulous and "incontournable" series of videos about the daily routine of children in Senegal:
  http://www.epals.com/media/g/senegal/default.aspx
• Mme. Nero's video blog of authentic videos in French and of language learning
• French movie trailers and descriptions, good selection to be used in French class
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Comptines et Chansons

• Momes is a great source for children's poetry, comptines, and chansons.

• http://people.southwestern.edu/~prevots/songs/ has traditional songs and nursery rhymes with lyrics and recordings.
• http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages/default.htm Some really good animated fairy tales, with the story read out (and sound effects too) in several languages.
• An excellent website which I use regularly to source songs which highlight a particular point of grammar or content:http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/chansons/index.htm
• Les clips videos de la Francophonie: various music videos of the Francophone world
• French pop songs and videos http://www.squidoo.com/french-songs-and-french-videos
• Contes pour tous ! http://feeclochette.chez.com/contes.htm
• French site with video versions and words of comptines http://paysdesreves.free.fr/
• Les Trois Petits Cochons video - lovely! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxnpz0z_hg&feature=youtu.be
• Il etait une histoire - so many fables, stories from around the world with activities! http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/
  
  

ART

• photos from around the world: http://www.alovelyworld.com/
• In the same vein, this one is photos from around France:http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/voyage/voyage.htm
  
  
• What's in a girl's handbag? (this is arguably not art, though for me it is!)http://le-sac-des-filles.over-blog.fr/
• http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/evenement/fetes-et-traditions-populaires/ - traditional celebrations in France in pictures
  
  
  
  

Food/Dining

• The importance of healthy eating:http://www.vinzetlou.net/vinz-et-lou-mettent-les-pieds-dans-le-plat/dessins-animes-du-mois and of eating seasonal food:http://agriculture.gouv.fr/vinzetlou/alimentation/episode13.html
  
  
• School dinners around the world:http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-school-lunches-look-like-in-20-countries-arou
• http://ecoles.ac-rouen.fr/butot_venesville/Alimentation.htm - different sections for different foods
• Healthy eating government initiative: http://www.mangerbouger.fr
  
  
  

Le Fooding

Les sites internet

• Emploi chez McDo en France
• http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/weboscope/francais/index.htm A website for FLE teachers which has links to several authentic websites for different skills (listening, reading etc).
• http://childtopia.com/ Aimed at younger pupils, it has stories read out with comprehension exercises (oral or written).
• http://www.dictionarist.com/ A dictionary which translates into several different languages but also reads out the word you have typed and works out what language it is in.
• Poems, jokes, recipes, stickers, this site has got it all:http://www.takatrouver.net/
• This perhaps doesn't really have much authentic documents but it groups cultural aspects of France such as the origins of its cuisine, historical facts, etc etc:http://french.lovetoknow.com/Category:French_Culture